A Little About Sharon

Sharon Sharth (aka Sharon Schlarth, nee Schlaerth) was most recently at The Sundance Film Festival 2023 with her latest film, The Accidental Getaway Driver. Directed by Sundance Best Director Winner, Sing J. Lee.

Sharon is best known as member and principal actress with the renowned Circle Repertory Theatre Company in New York City, where she developed new plays with Aaron Sorkin, Lanford Wilson, Shirley Lauro, Caroline Kava, John Pielmeier... On and Off-Broadway, Sharon originated fourteen lead roles.

As a lifetime member of The Actor’s Studio, she has performed at Circle Rep, Manhattan Theatre Club, Broadway’s Cort Theatre, Promenade Theatre on Broadway, Geffen Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Old Globe Theatre, Rubicon Theatre, Coachella Valley Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival, Yale Rep, the Eugene O’Neill Playwright’s Conference, and she has toured internationally, most notably in Japan in Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love after she played the role in NYC.

Sharon shortened her last name to Sharth and took a break from acting to become an Award-Winning Author of sixteen children’s books with various publishers. Why the break? While working at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego on Mark Harelik’s musical about Hank Williams and his wife, Audrey, Lost Highway, an accidental punch dislocated her jaw on stage. She finished the performance, finished the run, and was instructed by MDs from New York to California, to leave the business.

Back in the acting business, now in Los Angeles, Sharon has been nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress Awards for Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind, Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? Terrence McNally’s A Perfect Ganesh, and Arlene Hutton’s See Rock City and Gulf View Drive. Other recent stage work includes The Snake Can by Kathryn Graf, Switzerland by Joanna Murray-Smith, Power of Sail by Paul Grellong, and Waiting for Grace, written by and starring Sharon. 

Film work includes See Rock City and Gulf View Drive, filmed for DigitalTheatre.com – the first American plays to be added to this London-based streaming service. Ray Bradbury made sure Sharon was cast in the BBC’s production of his short stories after they worked together on Fahrenheit 451 in Los Angeles. Independent film leads include Doorman with Bradley Whitford, Eat and Run with Ron Silver, and the principal villain in Vertical Entertainment’s In the Forest. Sharon has played opposite George Clooney, Judd Hirsch, Will Patton, Bob Newhart, Stephen Lang, Louis Gossett, Jr., Margaret Cho, Jane Kaczmarek, and the great George Carlin.

She is writing a memoir, To Love What Death Can Touch, about Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS) – a common yet rarely recognized type of psychosis. She is also creating a new television comedy series, Melinda Wild.